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The Brokenwood Mysteries (2014)
What happened?
This years (season 9) of BrokenWood has lost something to the extent it doesn't even feel like the same show we've come to love. The mysteries, the music, the plots and the overall feel have changed dramatically. My wife and I have been watching this show since day one and really enjoyed the good mysteries, quirky style, even the country music loving detective (we aren't big country fans either -it's just a nice twist on the main character) and we loved the New Zealand backdrop. If it keeps going the way it has this season with too much emphasis on casting the correct "type" of characters, following the correct agenda and not enough energy put into good mystery writing we will have to find another show to fill the void left by it. It will be sad and missed. But the return of the show this year in the first episode has already made us feel as though we've lost BrokenWood. It's almost as if we are all living in the USSR these days and there is political officer in every organization telling people what boxes to check regardless of need in the show.